Occupation: Artist Birth: May 31, 1938
I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day..
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form..
I never considered myself a performance artist..
My work is about helping humanity..
There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did..
I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment..
People don't hurt what they love..
If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person..
People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think..
The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why ….
When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?".
Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, o….
I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school..
One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own co….
I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together..
Most wonderful things are unconscious..
I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to pla….
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It….
What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it ….
Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth..
People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats..